Why Trump might be just what America needed…for 1 term.


What If Donald Trump Is What America Needed?

This article has a very interesting quote.

“Once corporations discovered it was cheaper to lobby than to compete and innovate, the game as over. It was permanently rigged. I was having a drink with a lobbyist for the financial industry who looked me in the eye and said, “If America had any fucking idea what we do to them, they’d burn this fucking city to the ground and kill every one of us.” Continue reading “Why Trump might be just what America needed…for 1 term.”

We have a president who attacks our own businesses when it suits his petty, imaginary grievances.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-urges-goodyear-boycott/

Most of our elected officials like our companies. They provide jobs, tax bases and really do try to stay politically neutral because they want customers from all corners. Continue reading “We have a president who attacks our own businesses when it suits his petty, imaginary grievances.”

Nothing like a pandemic to highlight how dependent we are on low wage work.

http://digitaledition.pilotonline.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=dcce006f-fe1b-45ae-9318-9fb94e6134a7

If some workers are so essential, then their value to our economy is apparently not remunerated at market rates. Sadly, this applies to the millions of illegal immigrants we cannot do without, but we are willing to exploit for their lack of rights and compliance to stay in the shadows.

If there was any doubt that Limbaugh, et.al. and many of his Republicans are racists…

You Can’t Talk About How Kamala Got to the Top

“He’s “an independent contractor [who] had his contractor deal terminated by the league after a sexist Facebook post referencing Kamala Harris… [He] posted an image that read ‘Joe and the Hoe,’” h-o-e.” Continue reading “If there was any doubt that Limbaugh, et.al. and many of his Republicans are racists…”

This is a new wrinkle: a president that is purposefully sabotaging the election. And brags about it.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/13/trump-opposes-usps-funding-394692?cid=apn

Not only that, but he is cool with mail in voting in red states like NC, which has a history of fraud in voting perpetrated by the GOP. Hey, practice makes perfect.

Knowing we have to use mail for voting in the pandemic, he appoints another lackey to slow delivery and threatens to veto any additional funding for this crucial election.